Following Jesus ✝️𓅦𓅦𓅦

Following Jesus ✝️𓅦𓅦𓅦

Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)

Curated by Marakesh 𓅦

The Bitcoin Chronicles - 1.C.2 - The Martian Reckoners

On Mars, truth is not a virtue — it is survival. The Martian Reckoners arose from the harsh realities of Pilgrim-9 Colony, becoming the most trusted and feared guild in the Red World. Part auditors, part historians, part cryptographic monks, the Reckoners built a culture where settlement, memory, and governance all hinge on uncompromising truth. Their calculations, rituals, and signatures shaped the future of Martian sovereignty.

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The Two Faces of Babylon: Amoral Power, Immoral Consequences

Babylon is not a conspiracy or a cabal—it is a system whose amoral logic produces profoundly immoral outcomes. Its power lies not in overt oppression but in the subtle ways it rewards compliance, punishes sovereignty, and shapes identity. This essay explains why good, decent people—including those closest to us—remain within Babylon without realizing the cost.

Sunday Article (Dec. 7, 2025): The Bitcoin Chronicles - 1.C.3 - The Red Charter

The settlers of Pilgrim-9 did not intend to draft a constitution. They intended to survive. But as the Terraformers, Reckoners, guild engineers, and Lakota ethicists forged a new world on Martian soil, a shared ethos emerged — shaped by hardship, truth, and the Sovereign Canon they carried from Luna. The Red Charter became the first Martian declaration of identity, sovereignty, and purpose.

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Paid Article (Nov. 14, 2025): The Season of Invisible Work

A long-form reflection on the hidden, unglamorous stretch that comes right before a breakthrough — the season where your work feels fragile, your efforts feel unseen, and every system seems to resist you. Friday’s discouraging discoveries become the framing for a deeper exploration of sovereignty, endurance, and the quiet discipline required to keep building.

“When these things begin to happen, straighten up and lift up your heads" Advent 2 2025

The Scriptures push two things into your hands as you look toward the future. First, be sober. Drop the illusion that with enough progress, enough education, enough technology, we can engineer ourselves out of suffering, sin, and death. You are not going to “fix” this world. You are not going to build the kingdom of God by your projects. This age will end in fire, not in a human utopia. Your hope is not in the next election, the next medicine, or the next gadget, but in the Lord who says He is coming soon. Second, do not panic. When things move toward catastrophe, that alone does not mean the last trumpet is about to sound. Every age has had its wars, its plagues, its tyrants, its collapses. The Lord told us ahead of time that this is what a dying world looks like. If these are the last days, they are only what He said they would be. And if they aren’t the very last yet, they are still days under His cross and under His promise. Either way, He has not lost control.

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A Systems Hypothesis of Sovereignty: Stability, Information, and Human Agency

This article explores a recurring pattern across complex systems: decentralized, sovereign structures tend to be more stable than centralized ones. It proposes sovereignty as a systems-level insight—not a physical law—and distinguishes this real-world hypothesis from the fictional treatment in The Bitcoin Chronicles. The piece argues that technologies like Bitcoin and Nostr align with this pattern, reinforcing human agency and long-term resilience.

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